Byrds Quotes

There`s been a big change in the music field in the last 10 or 12 years. I think everything has improved - the sounds have improved, the musicians have improved, the engineers have definitely improved. I like a lot of the new groups, y`know, The Beatles and The Byrds and the . . . whoever, but I really like a lot of the new music, but a lot of it is basically, our music is basically, rock `n roll music is basically gospel or rhythm and blues. People have been adding to it, adding instruments to it, experimenting with it.

I followed The Byrds a lot, and then when they did a country styled record it made me curious to know who these people were that they liked.

As a guitar player, he was exemplary, ... So many musicians talked about how they wanted the George Harrison sound. The group the Byrds, in America, listened to Harrison and said, `I want to be like that.` So many guitar players today emulate Harrison`s guitar playing. You listen to his playing in the `60s, he doesn`t sound out of date at all. It is as contemporary today as it was then.